Taxation (No. 4) Act 1640

XIV. Proviso respecting Persons rated in the last Book of Subsidies for the Four Subsidies lately granted, and rated by this Act at a lesser Sum in respect of his Rank or Degree.

Provided alsoe And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid that if any person or persons whatsoever hath or have beene rated taxed or assessed in the last Booke of Subsidies for the foure Subsidies lately granted in this present Parliament at or above the rate of five pounds Lands or at or above the sum of seaven pound ten shillings in goods and yet by this present Act a lesser sum is laid set or charged upon him her or them for or in respect of his her or theire Rank degree or quality that in every such case such person or persons as aforesaid shall pay the full and intire sums hereafter menc[i]oned that is to say he or shee that was rated at five pound Land shall pay five pounds he or shee that was rated at ten pound Land shall pay ten pound hee or shee that was rated at twenty pound Land shall pay twenty pound and so from five pound upwards proportionably and he or she that was rated at seaven pound ten shillings in goods shall pay five pound he or shee that was rated at fifteen pound in Goods shall pay ten pounds and so upwards from seaven pound ten shillings in Goods proportionably after the rate of two thirds of what he or she is set in goods reference being had to the first rate that was made upon the said Bill of Subsidies and shall be acquitted and discharged of and from the payment of every other sum and sums of money imposed upon him her or them for or in respect of his her or theire respective rank degree or quality by this present Act Any matter or whatsoever thing herein made to the contrary notwithstanding